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Author:

Salius, Erin Michael, author.

Title:

Sacraments of memory : Catholicism and slavery in contemporary African American literature / Erin Michael Salius.

Publisher:

University Press of Florida,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

ix, 223 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Slavery and the church--Catholic Church.
American literature--History.--History.
Slavery in literature.
Catholics in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
American literature--African American authors.
Catholics in literature.
Slavery and the church--Catholic Church.
Slavery in literature.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Towards a reading of the Catholic margin in contemporary narratives of slavery -- Toni Morrison's sacramental rememory -- A sacred communion: the Catholic side of possession in the autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Two wings to veil my face -- Catholicism and narrative time: transcending the past and the present in stigmata and oxherding tale -- Catholicism and narrative time, continued: divine prescience in Edward P. Jones's The Known World Coda.

Summary:

This book argues that Catholicism informs a major genre of African American literature in ways and with a significance that has gone largely unrecognized. Sacraments of Memory thus proposes a new framework for understanding the revisionist aims of these works, contextualizing the skepticism they exhibit towards historical realism in terms of a Catholic counter-tradition in American literature that has long been associated with superstition and irrationality.

ISBN:

0813056896
9780813056890

OCLC:

(OCoLC)994296625

LCCN:

2017033921

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)